Academic Activities

  • Nominated as Advisor, Policy Research Institute, Nepal.
  • Serving as Chief, Department of Mother Tongues (Dictionary and Grammar), Nepal Academy.
  • Worked as a consultant on the formulation of Mother-Tongue Based Multilingual Education Framework for Federal Nepal, 2017.
  • Working as an expert in the Advisory Committee, Language Commission, 2016 onwards.
  • Served on the Editorial Board on revising Ethnologue: Languages of Nepal, 2012.
  • Counselling Ethnographic study of Nepal, SIRF, SNV, 2011-2013.
  • Coordinating the committee on language identification for 2001 and 2011 censuses, CBS.
  • Initiating and Piloting Linguistic Survey of Nepal (2007 – 2011), Central Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University.
  • Coordinating Linguistic and ethnographic documentation of the Baram language (LEDBL Project supported by ELDP, SOAS, University of London; 2007 – 2010).
  • Developing Multilingual reading materials for early grades in Nepal.
  • Linguistic diversity in Nepal: situation analysis and planning policy (SIRF, SNV / Embassy of Norway, 2006 – 2008.
  • Coordinating Nepali language resources and localization in education and communication (Bhashasanchar Project) (EU, 2005 – 2007).
  • Preparing / evaluating English curricula and textbooks for school level.
  • Worked on “Failures in Compulsory English at TU”, a research project submitted to Research Division, TU (with Sharda Bhadra as a co-researcher).